88% of Americans are suffering from some metabolic disease, like cancer, heart disease, diabetes, liver and kidney issues, auto-immune disease and more.  Something is seriously wrong with our approach to health.  Experts have called the modern medical system “controlling, disabling, dangerous, overpriced, fraught with fraud.”

Genetics plays a huge role in our lives.  You look something like your ancestors.  Nothing can change that.  Yet there is the new science of epigenetics which shows that our lifestyle can enhance, turn off, or turn on certain genes which makes lifestyle the most powerful medicine on earth.  Experts estimate that 5-10% of diseases are genetically programmed, with the remaining 90-95% created by lifestyle.  Lifestyle vectors include: attitude, nutrition, toxins, energy alignment, microbiome, exercise.  Using these six lifestyle forces could change western medicine into a more efficient, cost-effective, scientific, and humane system of health care.

Vitamin Deficiency

The early science of nutrition seemed so simple.  A severe deficiency of vitamin C would cause scurvy.  Vitamin C cures scurvy.  A severe deficiency of niacin causes pellagra, consisting of diarrhea, dermatitis, and dementia.  Niacin (vitamin B-3) cures pellagra.  In those early days no nutritionist could fathom the limitless shades of gray in between the black and white of health and death.  Yet, there are progressive steps as the body loses nutrient reserves that slowly cause disease, then death.

These are common magnesium deficiency symptoms

Nutrient Deficiency

Sequence in developing nutrient deficiency.

1. Preliminary.  Reduction of tissue stores and depression of urinary excretion.
2. Biochemical.  Reduction of enzyme activity due to insufficient nutrients.
3. Physiological.  Behavioral effects and reduced immunity.
4. Clinical.  Classic nutrition deficiency symptoms as outlined in nutrition textbooks.
5. Terminal.  Severe tissue pathology eventually ending in death.

In the early days of exploring the earth via ships, sailors could be at sea for months with nothing but dried meat and bread to eat.  Lacking vitamin C, these men experienced the awful unwinding of the bodies, with tooth loss, bleeding and eventually death.  Up to half the men aboard the ship might die from scurvy.  We do not see such blatant clinical deficiency symptoms in most of western society.  But we do see stages 2, 3, and 4 as outlined above.

Malnutrition can be defined as too much, too little, or an imbalance of any nutrient.  Add to that eating too often, and you have the trifecta of why 88% of Americans have some metabolic disease.

Magnesium Deficiency

Hypertension costs America $79 billion/yr.  Drug therapies for hypertension cause many side effects including loss of crucial minerals potassium and magnesium, plus vertigo in some people.  Meanwhile there is abundant evidence-based data showing that exercise and weight loss coupled with supplements of magnesium, calcium, and vitamin C can eliminate hypertension.

Anxiety disorders cost America $42 billion/yr.  Identifying food allergies and hypoglycemia, avoiding caffeine, supplementing with magnesium and niacinamide, and exercise can dramatically improve anxiety.  GABA, kava, and tryptophan can help anxiety without side effects.

Asthma costs America $36 billion with much of that due to hospitalization and ER use for severe attacks.  Supplements of magnesium, B6, and C can reduce symptoms of asthma while avoidance of food allergens can eliminate asthma.

Osteoarthritis costs America $80 billion/yr.  The anti-inflammatory drugs that treat this can cause gastro-intestinal bleeding and kidney disease.  Meanwhile, evidence-based science shows that nutrition supplements of fish oil, niacinamide, glucosamine sulfate, curcumin, and chondroitin sulfate can reverse or seriously improve this condition.

Heart failure costs America $30 billion/yr.  As much as 50% of heart failure patients are suffering from iron deficiency.  Supplements of Coenzyme Q and magnesium also can improve heart failure.

Rheumatoid arthritis costs America $34 billion/yr.  Many of the drugs used to subdue the symptoms of arthritis cost $31-72,000/yr and are essentially immune suppressants with multiple complications.  Meanwhile, identifying food allergens can eliminate arthritis in some.  Fish oil, borage oil, and ginger root are proven anti-inflammatory nutrients that can improve arthritis.

Diabetes 2 costs America $111 billion/yr.  Weight loss, intermittent fasting, plant-based diet, elimination of refined carbs can help many of these people.  Chromium supplements alone have been shown to improve type 2 diabetes in humans.

Change the Cause of Diabetes

Alzheimer’s disease costs America $305 billion/yr.  Dale Bredesen, MD has written a compelling book from his work with thousands of Alzheimer’s patients at UCLA showing that nutrients, hormone balancing, stress management, detoxification, etc. can cure Alzheimer’s.  About 20% of dementia patients are merely suffering from a deficiency of folate and B-12.

Cancer costs America $150 billion/yr.  The cost of lost productivity and early death is unfathomable.  Experts agree that one third of cancer is diet driven.

Americans are commonly nutrient deficient in:

• Vitamins: A,D,E,C,B-6,riboflavin, folacin, pantothenic acid
• Minerals: calcium, potassium, magnesium, zinc, iron, chromium, selenium, iodine, and possibly molybdenum, vanadium, and lithium.
• Macronutrients: fiber, water, plant protein, EPA, GLA, ALA

Essentially, many Americans are digging their own graves with their forks.  We can do better.  Health care expenses are at a breaking point.  While political leaders quarrel over who is going to pay this enormous bill of health care, no one seems to notice that we could reduce our health budget by 75% by adding common sense and nutrition to our health care system.

Again, is it a disease or a deficiency of a nutrient?

Excerpted from Beating Cancer with Nutrition 2021 by Dr. Patrick Quillin, PhD

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Covid

As of this writing, the Covid plague of 2020/21 has infected 75 million people worldwide with 1.6 million deaths, or 0.02% of global population.  The Center for Disease Control admitted that 94% of the USA “victims” of Covid actually had an average of 3 comorbidities, i.e. heart disease, cancer, diabetes, COPD, etc.  So only 6% of that death rate is actually due to Covid.

The media hails the arrival of the Covid vaccine as if the cavalry is coming to rescue the settlers.  In fact, the pre-vaccine recovery rate from Covid is 99.7%.  The lockdowns imposed were unconstitutional, unwarranted, and unprecedented.  Harvard researchers find that 50% of children who were forced to stay home in front of a computer monitor for the past 8 months are now suffering depression and suicide.  The Great Barrington Declaration has 39,000 physicians and 13,000 scientists worldwide agreeing that the lockdown has created astronomical financial and emotional hardships for billions of people.  Harvard, Stanford, and Oxford experts agree “Keeping students out of school is a grave injustice.”

Vitamins Good for the Immune System

Meanwhile, extremely effective nutrition therapies exist to treat Covid, including vitamin D, zinc, iodine, vitamin A, magnesium, and potassium.  Essentially, Covid has picked off the elderly who are infirmed and malnourished.  Hydroxychloroquine is a safe and effective medicine for Covid.  The cost of Covid has been bearable.  The cost of the Covid lockdown has been unbearable for millions in the USA.

As we age the immune system weakens in many people (aka immune senescence), which is why the vast majority of cancer patients and COVID victims are older.  The state of Pennsylvania found the average age of COVID victims to be 80, with 2/3 occurring in nursing homes.  Underlying conditions of obesity, diabetes, heart disease, medications all increase risk factors for COVID mortality.  Both COVID and cancer strike the weakened immune systems.  In a surprise to the aggressive vaccination community, the flu vaccine increased the risk for COVID infection by 36%.  The purpose of this newsletter is to get your immune system up to the challenge of reversing your cancer.

Essential Vitamins to Help the Immune System

There is an abundance of scientific documentation linking nutrient intake with immune quality and quantity.  This is a very crucial issue for the cancer patient.

Many nutrients taken orally can provide pharmacological changes in immune function in humans.  Protein, arginine, glutamine, omega-6 and omega-3 fats, iron, zinc, vitamins E, C, and A have all been proven to modulate immune functions.

Vitamin A

Vitamin A deficiency causes reduced immune response while beta-carotene supplements stimulate immune responses.  Vitamin A (retinol) improves immune response to fungal infections.  In developing countries, vitamin A deficiency causes the blindness of 250,000 to 500,000 children annually.  Oral doses of vitamin A at 200,000 iu (40 times the Recommended Daily Allowance) lowered measles mortality by 80% in children in developing countries with no side effects.  Vitamin A and synthetic derivatives have been used worldwide to treat and prevent various cancers.

Vitamin B-6

Vitamin B-6 has been used to prevent and treat cancer and as a blood marker that determines outcome in cancer treatment. B-6 supplements (50 mg/day) provided a measurable improvement in immune functions (T3 and T4 lymphocytes) for 11 healthy, well-fed older adults.

Various B vitamins have been linked to the proper functioning of antibody response and cellular immunity.

Folate

Folate deficiency decreases mitogenesis, or the normal division of cells.  Folate deficiency increases the risk for various cancers.

Vitamin C

Deficiency of vitamin C impairs phagocyte functions (immune cells that gobble invaders) and cellular immunity.  Intravenous vitamin C is a viable cancer treatment option.

Vitamin E

Vitamin E deficiency decreases antibody response to T-dependent antigens, all of which gets worse with the addition of a selenium deficiency.  Vitamin E succinate is a viable cancer treatment agent.

Iron

While iron deficiency can blunt immune functions, iron excess can increase the risk for cancer.  Iron presents an interesting case: 1)  because it is one of the most common nutritional deficiency problem worldwide, 2)  because low levels of iron will depress the immune system, and 3) because high levels of iron will stimulate both bacterial and tumor growth.  Iron intake needs to be well regulated…not too much, and not too little.

Zinc for the Immune System

Zinc exerts a major influence on the immune system.  Lymphocyte function is seriously depressed, and lymphoid tissues undergo general atrophy in zinc-deficient individuals.  The lymphocytes in zinc-deficient animals quickly lose their killing abilities (cytotoxicity) and engulfing talents (phagocytosis) for tumor cells and bacteria.  Natural killer cell and neutrophil activity is also reduced.  Zinc has become a proven therapeutic agent in treating advanced COVID patients.

Health Benefits of Zinc in Your Diet

Copper Can Boost a Depressed Immune System

Copper plays a key role in the production of superoxide dismutase and cytochrome systems in the mitochondria.  Hence, a deficiency of copper is manifested in a depressed immune system, specifically reduced microbicidal activity of granulocytes.

Selenium with Vitamin E

Selenium works in conjunction with vitamin E to shield host cells from lipid peroxidation.  Humoral immune response is depressed in selenium deficient animals.  Selenium and vitamin E deficiencies lead to increased incidence of enteric (intestinal) lesions.  Lymphocyte proliferation (making more warriors) is reduced in selenium deficiency.  The theory is that selenium and vitamin E help to provide the host immune cells with some type of “bullet-proof plating” against the toxins used on foreign cells.  Hence, one immune body can live on to destroy many invaders if enough vitamin E and selenium allow for these critical chemical shields.

Magnesium

In magnesium deficiency, all immunoglobulins (except IgE) are reduced, along with the number of antibody forming cells.  Magnesium is crucial for lymphocyte growth (involvement in protein metabolism) and transformation in response to mitogens.  Prolonged magnesium deficiency in animals leads to the development of lymphomas and leukemia.

Magnesium Deficiencies and How to Resolve Them

Iodine

Iodine plays an important role in the microbicidal activity of polymorphonuclear leukocytes.  Activated neutrophils may use the conversion of iodide to iodine to generate free radicals for killing foreign invaders.  Iodine is one of the more common deficiencies worldwide.  Iodine has the unusual role in nature of being essential to humans and lethal to most microbes, but not your friendly gut microbes.

Boron

Boron prevents osteoporosis, yet is still not considered an essential mineral in human nutrition.  Boron deficiency in soil is a worldwide problem with boron soil amendments dramatically enhancing plant growth.  Boron has shown activity in preventing and reversing cancer.  In a human study, the more boron in the diet, the lower the risk for prostate cancer.

Toxic Trace Minerals

Toxic trace minerals, like mercury, cadmium, arsenic, and lead all blunt the immune system.

The quality and quantity of fat in the diet play a major role in dictating the health of the immune system.  Since fat directly affects prostaglandin pathways, and prostaglandins (depending on the pathway) can either depress or enhance immune function, fat intake is crucial in encouraging a healthy immune system.

There are many foods and supplements that can have a favorable impact on the immune system.  Beating Cancer with Nutrition is dedicated to reinforcing your immune system to recognize and destroy your cancer using nutrition as a key modality.

Your Health, Vitality and Longevity

Your health, vitality, longevity, and ability to prevent and reverse cancer or infections is directly tied to the ability of your immune system to recognize “self” from “non-self”, which is heavily dependent on your nutritional status.

What to Eat to Help the Immune System?

Follow a plant based diet rich in fruits, vegetables, whole grains, legumes, nuts, seeds, mushrooms, medicinal spices and seaweed with a sprinkling of animal based foods, such as grass fed meat, wild caught fish, free range chicken and eggs, yogurt, and cheese.  Avoid junk food.  If it will not rot or sprout, then throw the food out.  If you can’t read the label on the package then don’t buy it.

Take supplements in reasonable dosages.  Due to poor food selections, stress, soils depleted of essential minerals, drugs and alcohol, many people are deficient in many nutrients.  Consider ImmunoPower Gold as a “one stop shopping” supplement in pure powder form for those who cannot or will not take pills.

Feed your immune system with the appropriate quantity and quality of precursor nutrients and your cabin in the woods will become a fortress against cancer and disease. Nutrients and vitamins can be very beneficial and help the immune system.

Excerpted from Beating Cancer with Nutrition

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And drugs are often the best therapeutic choice, especially for pain management.  88% of Americans suffer from a metabolic disease, including heart disease, cancer, autoimmune, liver or kidney disease, etc.  For many metabolic diseases, lifestyle medicine, including the once banned “alternative therapies” become the most rational and effective therapies.

Fortunately, mass appeal and common sense has allowed the survival of these “alternative therapies”, more appropriately labeled: integrative, rational, holistic, lifestyle, complementary, functional.

Today we generally consider alternative medicine as a practice that has evolved with indigenous people and later accepted by others, largely as a result of emigration. We consider methods utilized in the western world and developed over the past couple hundred years as western medicine.

What is Alternative Medicine

Alternative medicine is also referred to as “integrative” or “complementary” medicine and are often used to describe medical practices used in the western world that are an alternative to western-based medical methods.

Alternative medicine therapies are based on the all-inclusive approach, covering the mind, body and emotional well-being of the individual. A number of healing techniques are incorporated into this type of medicine. Doctors are now more aware and more willing to advise patients of the benefits of alternative therapies and are now recommending therapies such as nutrition, acupuncture, homeopathy, energy healing and others.

According to a study in the International Journal of Health Sciences, complimentary medicine refers to therapies that complement traditional western (allopathic) medicine and alternative medicine refers to approaches taken in place of traditional medicine. Integrative medicine refers to combining complementary treatments with convention care. The basic philosophy of complementary and alternative medicine include holistic are, which focuses on treatment a human being as a whole person.

Complimentary and Alternative Medicine

We have an extensive network of protective factors that circulate throughout our bodies to kill any bacteria, virus, yeast or cancer cells and fall under the umbrella of alternative therapies.  Think of these 20 trillion immune cells as both your Department of Defense and your waste disposal company. Cells in your body are duplicating all day every day at a blinding pace.  This process of growth is fraught with peril.  When cells are not copied exactly as they should be, then an emergency call goes out to the immune system to find and destroy this abnormal saboteur cell.  This process occurs frequently in most people throughout their lives.

Nearly half, or 42% of Americans can expect to develop cancer in their lifetime, yet most experts agree that everyone gets cancer about 6 times per lifetime.  Same with infections.  We are constantly bombarded with pathogens from our air, food, and water; yet it is the surveillance of an alert and capable immune system that defends most of us from cancer, infections, and premature aging.

What are Some Examples of Alternative Medicine?

Nutrition

There are many reasons why nutrition should be considered front line therapy:

1) Basic Nutrition

You are what you eat. Your body is composed of nutrients consumed over your lifetime. Your body is built from, repaired by, regulated by, and fueled by the nutrients in your diet. There are basic macronutrients (protein, carbohydrate, fat, fiber, water) and micronutrients (vitamins, minerals) that are taught in all approved nutrition courses around the world. But there is more to nutrition than this basic need.

2) Beyond Nutritional Deficiencies

While 10 mg/day of vitamin C will prevent scurvy in most adults, 90 mg/day will lower the risk for various cancers by 50%, and 1000 mg/day will help to reduce bleeding and bruising in older adults. Beyond deficiencies demonstrates that many nutrients take on meta-nutrient functions when provided at beyond survival dosages. Bruce Ames, PhD at the University of California Berkeley has shown that long term low intake of various nutrients creates fragile DNA, which eventually leads to cancer and/or premature aging. There is a huge difference between surviving and thriving financially, emotionally, physically, and nutritionally.

3) Quasi Nutrients

There are conditionally essential nutrients found throughout our food supply that are not considered essential for survival but have been shown to be incredibly useful at preventing or reversing common ailments. Coenzyme Q, lipoic acid, EPA and DHA from fish oil, sulforaphane and DIM from broccoli,

Bioflavonoids and carotenoids in abundance from fresh fruits and vegetables, ellagic acid in dark berries, lycopenes in tomatoes. And on it goes. In order to survive long enough to have two children and keep your DNA in the gene pool, you can eat almost anything that keeps you alive. If you want to thrive beyond those 20 years, then you need to be more cautious about your nutrient intake.

4) Herbal Nutrition

Herbal remedies are considered gentle on the system, effective to a large extent and without the potentially damaging side effects caused by prescriptions. For example, herbs such as sarsaparilla are used to detoxify the blood and cleanse it. Herbs such as yarrow maybe used as an anti-inflammatory for muscle and joint pain. Natural ingredients such as turmeric are used to treat the symptoms of autoimmune disorders and is widely accepted in helping getting healthier after cancer treatment.

Scientists have proven beyond argument that medicinal spices could become front line therapies in the near future. Use these spices often liberally. For more details on the efficacy of these spices, see HEALING SPICES by Bharat B. Aggarwal, PhD.

5) Intermittent Fasting

There is abundant data showing the mental and physical benefits of intermittent fasting. For 2 million years of adaptation, humans faced chronic food scarcity. These cave dwellers were physically fit enough to catch and kill an animal or the human died. They consumed abundant plant food with naturally occurring pesticides that eventually became protective against aging and cancer. We now eat too much and too often. We are obese and unfit, and avoid any food that does not taste like ice cream or soda. And that lifestyle is killing advanced civilizations by the millions.

Intermittent fasting has been shown to lower the risk for Alzheimer’s disease, cognitive decline, and increase lifespan. Intermittent fasting gives the digestive tract a break, allowing for regeneration of cells. IF offers a wealth of benefits with zero cost.

Mind-body Harmony

Many ancient cultures assumed that the mind exerts powerful influences on bodily functions and vice versa. Attempts to reassert proper harmony between these bodily systems led to the development of mind-body medicine, an array of approaches that incorporate spiritual, meditative, and relaxation techniques.

Meditation

Alternative systems of medicine often utilize multiple approaches. For example, traditional Chinese medicine incorporates acupuncture, herbal medicines, special diets, and meditative exercises such as tai chi. An eight week study conducted by Harvard researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) determined that meditation literally rebuilds the brains grey matter in just eight weeks. It’s the very first study to document that meditation produces changes over time in the brain’s grey matter. (1)

Creative Visualization

Picture your body the way you want it to be. Crowd out the disease with visions of health. Focus on that image for at least 30 minutes daily. Feel the feelings of being healthy, alive, alert, vibrant, and eager to address each new day. Since your mind is working all the time anyway, you might as well direct your mind toward thoughts of peace and healing as opposed to “awefulizing” about today and tomorrow.

Body-Based Approaches

Chiropractic

This includes methods such as massage which have long been recognized in certain cultures. In the 19th century, additional formal manipulative disciplines emerged in the United States: this includes chiropractic and osteopathic medicine which are widely accepted in the alternative medicine world. Both these approaches attempt to relieve structural forces on vertebrae and spinal nerve roots. This relief can help release stresses that are possibly evoking a panoply of illnesses beyond mere musculoskeletal pain.

Acupuncture

Acupuncture has been used in Asian cultures for centuries as they believed that good health depends on the balance and flow of energy throughout the body. The ancient Greeks believed that health requires a balance of vital humors. Acupuncture, replaces vital energy flow by placing needles at critical body points.

Results from a number of studies suggest that acupuncture may help ease types of pain that are often chronic such as low-back pain, neck pain, and osteoarthritis/knee pain. It also may help reduce the frequency of tension headaches and prevent migraine headaches. (3)

Reiki

The Reiki is an energy healing approach that originated in Japan and Tibet. Reiki involves the use of energy—either biofield- or bioelectromagnetic-based interventions. Reiki aims to realign and strengthen healthful energies through the intervention of energies radiating from the hands of a master healer. The practitioner does not use their own energy but serves as a channel and directs the energy towards the receiver. Reiki can bring overall balance to the body.

Light Energy

Some therapists use light therapy to heal. There are over 50,000 peer reviewed articles on the therapeutic application of laser therapy, as encapsulated in the academically affiliated textbook by Harvard professor Michael Hamblin in PHOTOBIOMODULATION. Since sunlight is the beginning of life on earth
via photosynthesis, it seems obvious that there is healing potential in selective use of the light spectrum. Babies born with jaundice are exposed to a particular light therapy that induces oxidation of the bilirubin, thus curing the jaundice.

Homeopathy

Allopathic medicine is based on concentration of active ingredients. Homeopathy takes the exact opposite approach, the more you dilute the substance, the more potent it becomes. These two sciences cannot peacefully co-exist, until you bring in the science of energy medicine. Homeopathic preparations have nothing more than the “fingerprint” of the original atom or molecule, which is why they work. Energy medicine with no toxicity.

Lifestyle Factors for Improved Wellness

Lifestyle factors effecting health vary in strength and direction.  For instance, a small plane flying at 100 miles per hour north into a head wind at 120 mph has a ground speed of -20 mph.  Progress is seriously impaired by the opposing force of the wind.

All lifestyle factors are vectors which either move you toward illness or wellness.  Consider the person who is smoking (-80 mph), eats a low fat diet (+60 mph), takes vitamin supplements (+40 mph), has a stressful attitude (-100 mph), and eats a high sugar diet (-80).  The overwhelming direction for this person is toward illness, even though he or she is doing some things right.  Health is a sum total of vectors.  For optimal health, take a look at alternative medicine and get all lifestyle factors heading in a favorable direction.

Why Broccoli Sprouts Can Fight Cancer

Alternative Medicine to Fight Disease

Disease and illnesses arise when the body’s immune system revolts against body tissues or results in changes to an organ’s regular functions, causing a range of terrible symptoms and in extreme cases resulting in death. Over 80 autoimmune illnesses have been found that commonly affect the blood cells, blood vessels, thyroid, pancreas, joints, muscles, connective tissues and skin. Many illnesses exhibit similar symptoms such as inflammation, sleep disorders, digestion problems, headaches, depression, fatigue, joint and muscle pain and fevers.

While there are not many known cures for various diseases, natural remedies have proven to be effective in helping to soothe and in some cases restore the natural balance of an over-active immune system. Natural anti-inflammatories can work to repair and restore a body’s self-healing mechanism.

Why Alternative Medicine is Better?

What if meditation could reverse mild to moderate depression, anxiety, and insomnia without medication? What if intermittent fasting could reverse most cases of type 2 diabetes and obesity? What if a couple thousand dollars invested in lifestyle reprogramming could prevent the need for patients institutionalized with stroke or heart disease? What if improved nutrition could prevent and reverse many common ailments? What if a healthy lifestyle could prevent and reverse most degenerative diseases. These are not hypothetical dreams for the future. These are therapies awaiting you right now. They work. They have little or no side effects. They are dramatically cheaper than drugs and surgeries. Let the future of health care begin.

(as excerpted from 12 Keys to a Healthier Cancer Patient)

https://www.nih.gov/

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LaValley got his first experience with traditional acupuncture and Chinese medicine ancient practices in 1982 when he took part in an exchange program with People’s Republic of China.

Curcumin, a natural product has been researched to all possible extents and research found that it has multiple applications in helping us during and after cancer treatment and when seeking relief from many diseases.

“One of the important messages that I learned there was that natural products, natural molecules, from plants and animals that are already available in nature, have been used by the Chinese for at least hundreds, probably thousands of years. That deeply changed my perspective in the world of medicine,” says Dr. LaValley. 

“I came back to medical school, and thereafter, looked at how I could integrate the perspective of conventional pharmaceutical administration as well as natural extract, natural product administration.”

Having devoted over 30 years of my own career to nutrition and specifically beating cancer with nutrition, I cannot advocate enough the beneficial research that has been done in identifying the  biochemical ways nutrition can support our health and help us get healthier.

Curcumin Has Potent Anti-Cancer Activity

In order to deeply involve himself in the molecular biology science, more concretely the cancer molecular biology, Dr.LaValley took sabbatical for 75% of his time during 2005. He spent between 9000 and 9500 hours of his time building a database which shows relations from the literature on the PubMed related to cancer molecular biology.

By understanding molecular biology, you can apply it through the wide range of symptoms and conditions which are documented in scientific literature. One can apply this knowledge by searching PubMed and similar databases and searching for the involvement of significant molecular pathways.

These foods can also help fight against cancer.

“In learning the molecular biology of cancer pathways, and in learning that what the evidence actually shows for the effect of natural product extracts on various relevant molecular targets in various cancers, we see that there’s actually quite a large amount of evidence that supports using various molecules, natural products, and pharmaceuticals that are already approved and that have been around for a long time to affect anti-cancer activity along that pathway at that target. That’s called molecularly targeted anti-cancer treatment, and it’s widely practiced in oncology today.

What’s not widely practiced is the use of the natural products for the molecularly targeted anti-cancer activity. I provide that for my patients because the evidence base suggests and supports the use of these treatment recommendations.”

Vitamins to help the immune system fight coronavirus

Curcumin – A ‘Universal’ Cancer Treatment?

One really odd thing about curcumin is that it seems to be uniquely useful for almost all types of cancer, which is strange since wide range of molecular pathologies are involved in cancer. It’s hard to believe that one plant would work for almost all types. Dr. LaValley summarizes how he concluded this:

“I went back to the literature and looked at how I can support the decision-making process and the recommendations that I’m making for treatment from the scientific literature, including literature that goes from the treatment of humans with oral products like pharmaceuticals or natural products.

This is where I learned about this molecule called curcumin, all the way down to its use in animals and then its use in test tubes or petri dish… One of the amazing things about curcumin is that this molecule has some profound anti-inflammatory activity and has activity in many molecular targets.

There are molecules that are in the cells, and those molecules interact with each other along certain pathways or tracks. The traffic of that interaction, the signals that are transferred in that trafficking of information in the molecules, presents many different targets or molecular-specific complexes.”

Why is Curcumin Successful in Cancer Treatment

Curcumin Targets Cancer Cells

Whether the curcumin molecule acts by increasing the activity of its special molecular focus point, or shows a inhibition or decrease in activity, repeated studies have shown that the ultimate result of these actions are very strong anti-cancer actions. To add to this, healthy cells are in no way affected by curcumin, which would suggest that it directly targets only the cancer-affected cells. There is also research which suggests that curcumin works in synergy with some chemotherapy medications, speeding up the process of removing of cancerous cells and we can then focus on getting healthier particularly after cancer and chemotherapy.  

Curcumin Destroys Cancer

Compared to other nutrients, except maybe vitamin D, the majority of evidence found in literature supports the use of curcumin for fighting cancer. What is also interesting is the fact that other metabolites and derivatives of curcumin also show anti-cancerous properties.

By enhancing healthy cellular functions and by eliminating cancerous cells, curcumin has shown the power to affect both genetic activities and genetic expression. Curcumin also helps in anti-angiogenesis, which means it can help in the developing of blood supply needed for cancerous cells to grow. Once the curcumin gets into the cell, it has effect on over 100 molecular pathways. To be more specific, it’s been proven that curcumin can destroy cancer in many ways:

• prevents the tumor cells proliferation
• prevents normal cells from transforming to tumorous cells
• helps your immune system destroy cancerous cells
• reduces spread of cancer cells in the body
• slows down inflammation
• prevents the proteins essential for tumor formation from synthesizing
• inhibits the formation of blood supply essential to growth of cancer cells

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Attitude, Meditation, Community ….

Stress, loneliness, hate, revenge, fear, and a sense of being overwhelmed generate a mind filled with depression and anxiety.  “You cannot be grateful and unhappy at the same time.”  Start each day with a sense of appreciation for what you do have, not focusing on what you don’t have.  Spend at least 15 minutes daily in meditation.  Still the mind.  Focus on a word or phrase that brings you peace.  Forgive others.  Let the Universe take care of their punishment.  Give away your time and money to those in need.  Altruistic people and volunteers live longer and healthier lives.  Maintain social connections.  Stay involved with your community, friends, and family.

Foods to Fight Bad Breath

What Affects Cognitive Function?

Nutrition

You are what you eat.  The mind is a blatant scoreboard for your nutrient intake.  A deficiency of nearly any nutrient can eventually lead to mental problems.  For example, studies show that up to 20% of dementia in the elderly is strictly due to a deficiency of vitamin B12 and/or folate.  Lithium and magnesium are key minerals in protecting and nourishing the brain.  Fish oil feeds the brain with critical fatty acids for mental health.  A Harvard psychiatrist authored a book on fish oil in mental health as being front line therapy for depression, anxiety, and dementia.

Obesity

Obesity increases the risk for depression and Alzheimer’s while intermittent fasting lowers the risk for cognitive decline.  Developed nations eat too much, too often and the wrong foods.  While the average person consumes 152 pounds of sugar each year, that sugar ends up “cooking” the brain through advanced glycation end products.

Medications

Alcohol abuse is directly linked to depression and Alzheimer’s.  Modest consumption of red wine, green tea, coffee, and dark chocolate can protect and enhance brain functions.  Many prescription drugs (such as statins for cholesterol, hypertensive meds, anti-anxiety, Parkinson’s drugs, anti-seizure, sleeping aids, anti-depressants) can cause memory loss.

Toxins

The modern world has dumped a plethora of toxins into our air, food, and water.  Add in the giant experiment of massive amounts of electro-magnetic “smog” from wifi, radio, microwave, cell phones and towers and you have the making of disturbing the brain’s ability to function.  Toxic metals; such as lead, mercury, aluminum, and arsenic; can drastically alter the brain’s ability to function.

How to Improve Cognitive Function

Nutrition Supplements Can Enhance Cognitive Performance

There are numerous supplements, from essential vitamins and minerals to obscure precursors of brain chemicals, that can enhance cognitive performance.  Acetyl L carnitine, L glutamine, L pyroglutamic acid, DMAE (dimethylaminoethanol), ashwaganda, blueberry, ginkgo, ginseng, vinpocetine, lithium, phosphatidylserine are among the leaders in this enticing field of nootropics.  The risk to benefit to cost ratio is highly in favor of experimenting with these inexpensive supplements.

Exercise and Activity for Improved Brain Function

Activity not only supports the body but also the mind.  Active people have enhanced circulation to the brain which protects the brain from oxygen deficiency.  Schedule 30 minutes daily of some form of exercise: swimming, walking, dancing, biking, cardio, etc.  Ballroom dancing has been shown to lower the risk of Alzheimer’s by 73%.  There is no downside here.

Deep Sleep Restores Brain Function

Deep restorative sleep is rare in the developed world.  Too many people get too little sleep, stay up too late, and awake exhausted.  Sleep is crucial to rebuild the brain at night.

Use it or lose it

There are about 100 billion nerve cells in the human brain, each cell connected (synapse) to a thousand other cells, making roughly 100 trillion junctions that may be responsible for memory.  Then there are the glial cells that do not conduct electricity, but are the maintenance crew in the brain and charged with eliminating unused neuron junctions.  An army of brilliant neuroscientists have spent the last half century analyzing the weaknesses and potential of the human brain.  Exotic research shows that you must “use it or lose it”.  The glial cells roam around the brain and take out unused junctions.  Hence, the need to keep the brain active through work, play, dance, reading, games, travel, and more.

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Cognitive Function Can Be Restored

For decades, scientists and physicians told us that the human brain begins to lose cells and mental capacity around age 40.  That Alzheimer’s disease is irreversible.  We now have evidence to the contrary on both of these axioms.  The plasticity of the human brain is remarkable.  We can continue to have substantial mental abilities well into our senior years.  Alzheimer’s disease is reversible.  Respect your brain.  You need it.  Treat it with the support ideas listed above and you will have a razor sharp mind instead of cognitive decline.

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